Table 3.
Mean ± SE for Health Beliefs and Medication Adherence for All Time Perspectives
| Variable | Present- hedonistic |
Present- fatalistic |
Future |
|---|---|---|---|
| Perception of disease severity | |||
| Least of worries | 3.21 ± 0.29 | 3.15 ± 0.29 | 3.57 ± 0.18 |
| A minor problem | 3.31 ± 0.14 | 2.83 ± 0.18 | 3.68 ± 0.14 |
| A somewhat important problem | 3.16 ± 0.09 | 2.78 ± 0.13 | 3.46 ± 0.10 |
| A serious problem | 3.18 ± 0.06 | 2.51 ± 0.08 | 3.75 ± 0.05 |
| Perceived susceptibility to complications | |||
| Hardly ever thought about | 3.28 ± 0.15 | 2.95 ± 0.16 | 3.42 ± 0.12 |
| Sometimes thought about with no worry | 3.21 ± 0.07 | 2.60 ± 0.11 | 3.59 ± 0.08 |
| Often thought about with worry | 3.18 ± 0.08 | 2.60 ± 0.10 | 3.77 ± 0.07 |
| Worried about a lot | 3.06 ± 0.11 | 2.49 ± 0.17 | 3.83 ± 0.09 |
| Medication adherence | |||
| Completely nonadherent | 3.36 ± 0.33 | 3.00 ± 0.45 | 3.03 ± 0.27 |
| Slightly adherent | 2.40 ± 0.65 | 2.19 ± 0.61 | 2.97 ± 0.45 |
| Adherent on average | 3.37 ± 0.15 | 2.95 ± 0.24 | 3.42 ± 0.20 |
| Mostly adherent | 3.12 ± 0.08 | 2.60 ± 0.13 | 3.80 ± 0.07 |
| Completely adherent | 3.20 ± 0.06 | 2.60 ± 0.08 | 3.70 ± 0.05 |